Should You Wash Raw Chicken?
Do you need to wash raw chicken? Not necessarily.Lan Lam explains what you should wash in your kitchen when preparing raw chicken.
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VEGETARIAN HERE! YUCK!
all i know is my way is the right way and everyone else is an idiot
I rinse chicken in diluted vinegar in a large bowl. Being careful not to splash. Poor out mixture slowly into sink. 🎉
Say it like you mean it, the answer is NO, cross contamination galore and then think its somehow more hygenic?
Thank you for providing the option! Cleaning your meat is not just to clean pathogens, it’s a cultural practice and for MANY cultures.
Long story short, don’t wash your chicken.
She has too much water pressure on the chicken. Just turn on slower and it wont splash.
It is gross if u do not wash it
Wish she'd shut it down entirely. There's absolutely no reason to wash chicken, it just spread bacteria all around your kitchen and makes the skin damp.
all downside, no upside. the answer is no.
No one washes chicken to make it safer to eat. People "wash" chicken to remove the oily film that collects on chicken as it weeps in the package while it sits in the grocery store waiting for you to buy it. You can get the chicken surface more dry and produce a better maillard reaction if your chicken has been rinsed and dried. Binders stick better, seasoning sticks better. Rinsing also allows you to get a better grip on the chicken so you can butcher it properly, because grocery stores especially sometimes do a poor job. It has absolutely nothing to do with sanitation, it's about mise en place.
Leave cultural norms alone. Cultures have washed/cleaned chicken along with other meats for centuries. Just because your culture doesn’t and you just now realized other cultures do doesn’t mean it is wrong. Keep doing you and let other people keep doing what they do.
Washing chicken is generally done by one very specific demographic
Unless you are butchering live chickens, there is zero logic to washing chicken and good reasons not to.
My grandmother said to “wash the plastic off.” But then she was an old wife and that was her tale.
In my country chickens are dropped on the market floor so you have to wash them with soap
You make assumptions that meat washing cultures do so to remove bacteria and have the same processing as the US. 2nd faulty assumption, they dont "power wash" chivcken as demo'd in the video
Maybe not put the chicken directly under the tsp where it will do the most splashing, keep it in the bottom of the sink, and don't run the water too hard. Better, run some water in a pot and gently sink the chicken in. Or maybe wash it in the shower and take a shower immediately after.
Some chicken has yucky juices when it's not fresh, and those juices should be washed off. Clean up after.
I have seen people (morons) putting soap on chicken 😂
The microbial life in chicken and other proteins are toxigenic. If they aren’t destroyed by cooking they will produce toxins during digestion which can make you very sick. There is no appropriate way to reduce this via washing that wouldn’t really make your food completely inedible or unappetizing. If your proteins have been sitting in a fridge too long and or have unappealing sliminess or odors, they may not be safe and the bacteria present would have already produced toxins that cooking will not get rid of.
Yeaaaaah, Certain People will refuse to do this despite the scientific evidence being right there. 😫
Great video. Really appreciate the tested, factual information!
see when these ppl say " wash " they are talking about with soap. not just rinsing it like you showed. they are crazy.
Its splashed all over your clothes too.
In my head I understand I don’t need to wash it, however my mom does it so I do it too bc I know better than to question her 😂
I never wash chicken or any meat. Just pat it dry real well with paper towels before cooking. I do wear gloves when handling meat though and usually use a fork to pick it up and turn it over. Minimize mess and handling.
Wash. I worked in a poultry plant. Old lady snot drips on it.
I wash it bc it’s been sitting in the package and I like the blood and film off but I also tell ppl as a former chef…they ain’t washing chicken in ur fave restaurant so please stop the hygiene Olympics bc we are ALL eating unwashed chicken!
I figure if you really wanna do this for whatever reason, the best thing is to fill a mixing bowl with water or water and vinegar and wash it in the bowl. Minimizes splashing. Then you just have a bowl to clean up.
My grandmother taught me to use vinegar on the skin and inside the chicken then wipe it dry and proceed to use the pieces. Vinegar is a natural antibacterial. What do you think of this?